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mediamatters.org - 1/23/2009

Media advance falsehood that Pentagon has confirmed that 61 former Guantánamo detainees have ...

— mediamatters.org — Since President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring that the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay be closed within a year, numerous media figures and outlets -- including CNN's Campbell Brown, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Fox News' ... (more) Media advance falsehood that Pentagon has confirmed that ...

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crooksandliars.com - 1/25/2009

61 Detainees Returning To Terror? No, Pentagon "Making Up Numbers"

— crooksandliars.com — I wrote on Wednesday about the Pentagon's claim that 61 Gitmo detainees had "returned to terror" and noted previous Seton Hall Law studies that said the Pentagon was...umm... lying through it's teeth . Seton Hall now has a new report out ... (more) 61 Detainees Returning To Terror? No, Pentagon "Making ...

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Come Saturday Morning: The Torturers Strike Back
Firedoglake — ... As Media Matters goes on to show, the lies are being spread far and wide by a very helpful GOP/Media Complex. Right on cue, Lidice Logic is being invoked by everyone's favorite would-be dictator, Rudy Giuliani, who tried and failed to use the bombing of the Twin Towers as an excuse to blow off the mayoral election and stay on as mayor. Rudy's now waving around the case of a Yemeni who was released from Guantanamo and went on to commit crimes as a reason to keep Gitmo going. Our own Jane Hamsher's ripped into what he said on Joe Scarborough's ...

Who needs files on prisoners?
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... narrative that they needed to keep Gitmo open as a part of the so-called “war on terror” — and brings up questions of how evidence was handled and how decisions were made to release detainees. They have more stats on who has been released and what happened to them, but in summary, from the site: The bottom line: the actual number of people who would meet an objective definition of “returning to the battlefield” is tiny. More here. What I find cutely fascinating is the willingness to put ...